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ReThink Review: The Yes Men Fix the World -- Speaking Truth by Faking Power

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bhopal, Rethink Reviews, Union Carbide, Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Kim, Dow Chemical, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

Armed only with cheap suits, fake websites, a few props and nuts the size of Survivaballs, the Yes Men have become infamous for infiltrating corporate events pretending to be spokesmen for government agencies or some of the world's most powerful companies.

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Faith-Based Investors Target Members Of U.S. Chamber Of Commerce

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chamber of Commerce Climate Change, Members Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, Interfaith Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce Health Care Reform, Politics News

Prominent faith-based institutional investors are pressuring several of the Chamber of Commerce's biggest members -- including Merck, Walmart, McDonal...

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Chamber Me This

James Boyce | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Chamber of Commerce, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, American Trucking Associations, Tom Donahue, Green News
James Boyce

The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's recent actions are a complete riddle to not only me, but to many of the chamber's own members and former supporters.

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Chamber Of Commerce: Climate Change Policies 'Echo Our Principles'

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Chamber of Commerce, Lobbyblog, Climate Change Legislation, Business News

The heated stand-off between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and lawmakers pushing for comprehensive climate change may be cooling, reports Congress Dail...

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Rahm Emanuel Dispatched To Mend Fences With Chamber Of Commerce

Politico | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rahm Chamber, Rahm Chamber of Commerce, Rahm Emanuel, Chamber of Commerce, Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

The White House continued its fence-mending with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday -- very quietly -- dispatching Obama chief of staff Rahm Em...

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Sam Stein

New Business-Group Ad Has Racial Undertones, Union Alleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chamber Race, Chamber Ad, Racial Undertones, Chamber of Commerce, Affirmative Action, Chamber Racial Undertones, Lobbyblog, Politics News

A new ad from the Chamber of Commerce and its allies attacking Democratic-led efforts to pass health care legislation includes a storyline that union ...

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Jeff Muskus

GOP Boycotts Senate Climate Change Hearing (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barbara Boxer, James Inhofe, Senate Climate Change, John Kerry, Climate Change, Kerry-Boxer Bill, George Voinovich, Lindsey Graham, Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself. From the beginning, it was ...

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Chamber of Commerce M.I.A.! Chevron Takes the Heat!

The Yes Men | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Chamber of Commerce, Pollution, Activism, Lobbying, Oil Companies, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, Green News
The Yes Men

Chevron is a target of citizen protests in California, across the United States and around the world because of Chevron's role in climate destruction, public health abuse, and wars for oil.

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News Flash: Lenders Prefer Fragmented Regulation of the Consumer Financial Marketplace

Norman I. Silber | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Consumer Financial Protection, Cfpa, Regulation, Chamber of Commerce, House Financial Services Committee, American Bankers Association, Business News
Norman I. Silber

Regulators appear to have placed a higher value on protecting the interests of those who sell financial products than on the interests of consumers of transparent, safe, and fair financial products.

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Who Funds The Chamber Of Commerce? HuffPost Readers Respond

The Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chamber of Commerce Members, Chamber of Commerce, Who Funds the Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

HuffPost readers responded to our request for more information about the companies and organizations which fund and support the Chamber of Commerce, w...

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No Deal: Chamber Of Commerce's War Against Obama

Wall Street Journal | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chamber of Commerce Obama, Chamber of Commerce War on Obama, Donohue Obama, Barack Obama, Chamber of Commerce, Thomas Donohue, Politics News

With President Barack Obama bidding to overhaul the health-care system, tighten bank oversight and make industries pay for their greenhouse-gas emissi...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Investor Protection Act: Dems Square Off Against Republicans On Shareholders' Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Shareholders, Mike Castle, Barney Frank, Preemption, Financial Crisis, Maxine Waters, Chamber of Commerce, Proxy Access, US Chamber of Commerce, Federal-Preemption, Business News

Democrats and Republicans faced off Wednesday in a congressional debate over whether shareholders should have an easier time nominating directors to c...

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The Secret Chamber of Commerce and its "Tort Reform" Mission

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Washington State, Chamber of Commerce, Tort Reform, Corporations, Judges, Judicial System, Politics News
Joanne Doroshow

The U.S. Chamber created the ILR to pursue the Chamber's so-called "tort reform" agenda: protecting corporations from liability, weakening the civil jury system and blocking the courthouse door for sick and injured Americans.

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Chamber Of Commerce Members To Visit White House

POLITICO | Eamon Javers | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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It will be a day of détente between the White House and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday as President Barack Obama invites small business own...

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Chamber Of Commerce To Begin Ads Against Health Care Reform

AP | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arkansas, Ads, Health Care Bill, Gop, Public Option, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Political Ads, Ad, Democrats, Maine, Cable, Louisiana, Advertising, Health Care Reform, Lobbying Group, Chamber of Commerce, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Looking to build pressure on moderate Democrats, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it will begin airing new TV ads in seven states ...

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Sam Stein

Chamber Uses Google Ads To Fight "Liberal Left-Wing Extremist Groups"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chamber Fights Back, Google Chamber, Chamber Fight Smears, Google Ads, Liberal Hate Groups, Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce Google, Politics News

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is firing back at its critics, and it's turning to Google for an assist. The massive business lobby, under siege from t...

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Chamber Of Commerce Taking Yes Men To Court

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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The Chamber of Commerce is suing the Yes Men over the parody press conference the group pulled off last week. The Chamber has filed a civil complaint...

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Chamber Of Commerce Sues Yes Men Over Climate Change Policy Prank

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a civil complaint on Monday against members of a liberal activist group who staged a news confer...

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Who Funds The Chamber Of Commerce? Help HuffPost Find Out

Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Who Funds Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce Climate Change, US Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce Donors, Transparency, Business News

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been vociferous in its opposition to White House initiatives on financial reform, health care reform and climate chan...

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Frank Rich: In Defense Of The Balloon Boy Dad

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Steinbeck, Hoax, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, Ed Wood, Balloon Boy, Obama, American Idol, Msnbc, Television, Cnbc, White House, Gary Condit, Grapes of Wrath, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Lear, Reality TV, Wmd, War of the Worlds, Bush, Chamber of Commerce, Books, Lou Dobbs, Richard Heene, Heene Family, They Shoot Horses Dont They, Cnn, Day of the Locust, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Wolf Blitzer, Norman Lear, Media News

For a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated "balloon boy" spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up t...

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New Pew Center Poll Confirms the Effects of Climate Confusion Campaign

James Hoggan | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Pew Research Center, National Association of Manufacturers, American Petroleum Institute, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), American Public Opinion Global Warming, Chamber of Commerce, Arctic Climate Change, Pew Center for People and Press, Green News
James Hoggan

Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence, the pleadings of nation's like the Maldives -- that are being wiped off the map by rising sea levels -- Americans still question whether global warming is real or not?

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Greens Have Finally Got the Big Mo

David Roberts | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Lobbying, Accce, Superfreakonomics, Kerry-Boxer Bill, Religion and Spirituality, Lindsey Graham, Us Epa, Veterans, Obama Administration, FACES of Coal, Cejapa, Yes Men, Chamber of Commerce, Lisa Jackson, Astroturf, Climate Action Day, Bonner, Green News
David Roberts

Since the summer, greens have had one good break after another. Unlike after An Inconvenient Truth, the latest dramas are not pop culture events, but political achievements inside the Beltway.

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Sam Stein

Labor Increasingly Confident That The Chamber's Time Has Passed

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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The White House's increasingly aggressive posture on the Chamber of Commerce has emboldened like-minded critics of the business lobby to speak confide...

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US Chamber of Commerce Hates "Buy America" Slogan

Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Air America, Pap Attack, Apple, Nike, Buy American, Tom Donahue, Union, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Ring of Fire, Climate Change, Business News
Mike Papantonio

The organization that use to represent small business interests has morphed into a lapdog that serves a new master. That master is international mega-corporations.

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Mohawk Paper Joins Chamber of Commerce Exodus

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: PG&E Corp, Apple, Nike, Pseg, Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Mohawk Paper, Levi Strauss, The Yes Men, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The Chamber has been losing members -- real members out of its actual 300,000 or less total -- at a rate of several each week lately.

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